Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-26
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


census of Lewis county at $500.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is
moving its old slops from Kalama.
A Methodist church is to be built in
Shelton, Mason county, by Rev. K. II.
Massey, Of Olympia.
The census of Kitsap county shows
population of 3,OSS, embracing q
254 males and 834 females.
The Walla Walla Statesman says
that the quality of the wheat of that
section is not as good as average.
The Unitarian society Of Tacoma
has commenced the erection OF
church edifce, estimated to cost $5,-
300.
Bricks are being brought from st.
Louis for the fronts of some of the
new Tacoma buildings. They are as
smooth as glass.
Population of Cowlitz county, 3,l79;
taxable property, real estate $413,-
1T; improvements $113, 1872; personal
property $3OO,429.
Jesse Cottington, the father of hop
growing interests in Wisconsin, says:
81 have to acknowledge that the
Washington Territory is the prettiest
hop ever saw, and it being so colory
must make it a favorite among
brewers"
The Yakima Signal is informed by
E. P. Boyles, that on the Cle-elum riv-
er, mountain goats are frequently seen,
numbering Is or 20 in body. They
get fat in the fall and are superior to
venison. Mr.. Boyles killed one that
weighed 800 pounds.
Hop-picking will begin about Sep
tember 9Th, thus making it later than
last year by something over a week.
Indians are beginning to arrive from
the north and large numbers are now
ON the way. There is every prospect
that pickers will be plentiful.
Mr.. Carlson has Bartlett pear tree
which takes the cake This is the
third year that it has borne three crops
of pears. TIE last crop has never
ripened. but last year they were very
nsar ripe. The third crop of blossoms
for this year has just appeared.-La.
conner Mail.
The investigation of the collision be.
tween the steamers Emma Hayward
; and Fleetwood, by inspectors Bullent
and Bryant, resulted in finding the Of
ficers of both vessels at fault, and thu
licenses of Captains Hatch, WoOler,
and Green have been suspended for 80
: 60 and 80 days respectively.
The Seattle Packing and Canning
company, composed of Messrs. Kirk
, wood, Nottingham & Wyman, Colum
. bia river men, Was destroyed at Smith
cove Friday noon. The company wa
. preparing to begin operations witt
Cinnamon when an accidental fire de
= stroyed the cannery. Loss $4,000
= No insurance.
= Several parties left Chehalis Tues
:, day for the foothills. They had sever
. al horses packed and 60 to prospec
- for coal. The groupings had had bee
- found and the party there now hav
=. with them an expert who will make
,f thorough exploration. When tn
. great mineral wealth is exposed som
railroad company will build throug
the Cowlitz pass. Two or three con
n panies are looking that way now.
- The railroad companies doing bus
:, ness in this Territory have this ye,
paid into the Territorial Treasury, Vi
der the operation of the gross earnin,
:. - tax law, SCI, ,226.04, being an increa
" over last year of S10,S4S94. Ne:
:, :, year the increase will be still create
:" OF the amount collected one-third 60
- to the Territory and the remainder
. divided up among the counties in pr
portion to the miles of railroad
each.
10 Prof. E. P. Young returned to T
~ coma Saturday evening from Chical
49, where he attended the National Teac
ers' Association. He reports We
interesting and enthusiastic sessie
ro- About $4,000 teachers were in after
en- ance, representing all departments
he the profession, from the college pre-
of dent to the kindergarten teacher. Pr
M Young was the only representa-
nd from this Territory. The next sessi
hy of the Association will be held in Z
All Francisco, in July.
ol Prof. L. j. Powell, late President
OF the Territorial University at Seat
+. died Wednesday, of last week at
residence in that city, in his SD ye
Deceased came to Oregon from K
tucky with his father in 1859, settl
- in East Portland. He afterwards
- turned to the East and graduated
-, the Wesleyan University of Delaw,
IN He was the professor of mathema
in the Willamette University at Sal
. Oregon, for fifteen years. He left t
position to accept the presidency
tied the Albany Collegiate Institute.
lid four years the professor was supe
nee tendent of public instruction of
,ver egon. In 1881 he was chosen Pl
so dent of the University Of Washing
which position he filed, as he did